Home Products IQ Accelerates

Home Products IQ Accelerates

With a slowing Chinese economy, an unpredictable presidential campaign and our stock market off to one of its worst starts in history — the Consumer Electronics Show, the Kitchen & Bath Industry Show and the International Builders Show all burst onto the...
Authenticity Must Ring True When Marketing Building Products

Authenticity Must Ring True When Marketing Building Products

Customers are more hesitant to put their faith in brands. It begs the question: how can customers trust brands when the relationship is one-sided? The answer is: they can’t. As such, authentic brands have emerged as the envy of corporate leaders worldwide. If...
30 seconds to pitch your building product. Can you do it?

30 seconds to pitch your building product. Can you do it?

Many companies can, quite easily, describe their brand and what it stands for.  These descriptions can become too long to be effective.  Is it possible to describe your brand in less than a minute? What about 30 seconds? In a post discussing the importance...
5 Tips for Pitching to Trade Publications

5 Tips for Pitching to Trade Publications

Trade publications are perhaps one of the most important PR tools for home and building professionals. Because they reach a very focused target audience, many of our media efforts involve working with trade publications relevant to our industry. But just because...